CSUEB offers a certificate in video game design and development

May 4, 2012 12:00pm

According to the Entertainment Software Association, 72% of U.S. households play video games. Whether you are interested in the conceptual side, production, or programming, the video game industry has a need for qualified workers.

The California State University, East Bay certificate in Video Game Design and Development provides comprehensive training to those who seek to enter this perpetually stimulating and challenging field. Offered online for convenience, the program assumes no prior experience in game or graphics programming. The curriculum covers programming languages, game mathematics, 3D graphics pipeline programming, real-time game engine architectures, and artificial intelligence algorithms.

The Bay Area is home to LucasArts, Zynga, Playdom, Ubisoft, EA, Pixar, and SEGA, as well as myriad small and independent companies. Be a part of the tradition of technological and creative innovation the Bay is known for.

California State University, East Bay is the San Francisco East Bay Area's high-access public university of choice. CSUEB serves the region with campuses in Hayward and Concord, a professional development center in Oakland,
and an innovative online campus. With an enrollment of more than 14,000, the University offers a nationally
recognized freshman year experience, award-winning curriculum, personalized instruction, and expert faculty.
Students choose from among more than 100 professionally focused fields of study for which the University confers
bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an Ed.D. in education. Named a "Best in the West" college, as well as a
Best Business School, by the influential Princeton Review, Cal State East Bay is among the region's foremost
producers of teachers, business professionals and entrepreneurs, public administrators, health professionals,
literary and performing artists, and science and math graduates.